Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:37:03 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Geff Hanoian <boing@boing.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels Message-ID: <200001120137.RAA02138@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:18:37 PST." <200001120118.RAA12047@kusanagi.boing.com>
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> I breifly examined building an embedded system and some of them only > wanted to boot off a fat 16 partition with a "command.com" like thing. > Didn't research it too much, but it didn't seem flexible enough to boot > off of a boot/loader type thing. Sure PicoBSD works fine on a floppy with > a normal intel box and the boot/loader stuff. I can fairly say that I have a reasonable amount of experience with embedded systems, and I can't recall seeing anything like this in the last ten or so years. You may have been looking at a system with layered software like DOS-in-ROM, or possibly just something totally weird I guess. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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